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Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.

Richard Rohr

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Richard Rohr
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 20
Catholic Priest
Motivational Speaker
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Topeka
Kansas
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